Adding an off-board graphics adapter like an Nvidia GTX, is this possible with Aspire E5-575?

Kurtmel

Hello,
My company gave me a basic bare-bones office quality laptop, an Acer Aspire E5-575. I am not an office worker, I'm an Instructional Designer that has to work on both graphics and multimedia, I can get them to foot the bill for 32GB of system RAM, but it also has a paltry 1GB of internal Intel VRAM with integrated GPU on the motherboard.  My question is, can I add another graphics adapter card to this like an Nvidia card, then disable the on-board GPU? My personal laptop could see both, each driving different displays. I just got a "BOOTMGR not found" on my personal laptop, so until I get that sorted out, I'm stuck using this work computer for everything, now working from home. Even a 4GB graphics adapter would be better than this on-board 1GB GPU, but don't know if it can be added and then disable the on-board GPU through the BIOS or not. And answers like have them buy you a better laptop are NOT helpful, I have to make the best of the situation at hand.

JackE

You can add fairly powerful external GPUs using one of the m.2 slots. eGPUs can be a bit clunky to wire but gives you a lot more graphics capability Jack E/NJ

Kurtmel

Thanks JackE,
while I'm not afraid of opening the guts of a laptop by any means, but when you start talking wiring things, that's a step too far for me to go with a Company laptop. Now if they do have an M.2 slot GPU card, then I'm all over it. But, you'd have to elaborate on what you mean by "clunky to wire" for IT would freak if they found out I was soldering the ***** out of one of their cherished resources. However, I'm still all ears about possibly an m.2 plug-in type graphics adapter though.

JackE

This is an example of what I meant by 'clunky' eGPU adapter using an available m.2 socket. https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/723414/#Comment_723414.  You obviously could do it without drilling holes for the ribbon cable but it's not too practical IMO. And here's one claiming success using a 2 lane m.2 socket. https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/543702/can-my-laptop-using-egpu

Jack E/NJ